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Retro drinks party

by Julia Watson
Step back in time at your next gathering

Bad taste food is making a comeback. It doesn’t taste bad – in fact, if we’re really honest, it’s some of our favourite stuff. But it’s the food counterpart of an Elvis painting on velvet. Actually, it probably amounts to the King’s choice gourmet nosh: fried peanut butter and mashed banana sandwiches, macaroni cheese, pigs-in-a-blanket, are on record as among his best-loved dishes. And they provide the inspiration for a great retro drinks party.

And you don’t have to paint your fridge avocado green to get into the mood. All you need for the centrepiece is several fistfuls of coloured plastic cocktail sticks, a big red cabbage, yellow cheese, a tin of Spam, stuffed olives and you’re on your way.

  • Cut the cabbage in half across its middle and slam it upside down on a platter. Thread a cube of cheese, a cube of Spam (use this sparingly if you prefer – just enough for people to get the joke) and a stuffed olive on a stick and plunge it into the cabbage. Intersperse with cubes of cheese and pineapple and you’ve created pure retro heaven in a psychedelic porcupine.
  • Scoop out the other cabbage half to make a bowl with a rim about 2cm thick. Cut a thin slice off the bottom so it won’t roll over. Surround with batons of peeled carrot and celery, florets of cauliflower, sugar snap peas, slices of green and red pepper, and any other vegetable. Stir one packet of dried onion soup mix into 225ml sour cream and 225ml cream cheese until well blended and pour into the cabbage bowl.
  • Boil any number of eggs until hard. When cool, peel, halve and scoop out the yolks. Mash them in a bowl with some spoonfuls of Branston Pickle, or prepared mayonnaise with a little curry powder, then stuff the mixture back into the hollows.
  • Take a boule of white bread (one of those round country loaves). Chop off a lid and carefully cut out the interior. Cube the crumb and pile onto a plate with the emptied loaf in the centre and an eggcupful of cocktail sticks. Fill this bready bowl with warm cheese fondue.
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